Thursday, March 18, 2010
Politics politics and more politics....
Not normally being one to talk about politics on this blog TonbridgeBlog will break with that unwritten convention since we are in the run up to the closest fought general election since John Major beat Kinnock back in the early 1990s. So let's hear your views. How do the people of Tonbridge decide on their vote. Is it just merely blindly following what you've always done, how your parents probably voted. Are you just true blue and proud or are you a floating voter? In which case what will sway your vote? Please don't say that you never vote because they are all the same and in any case what can my vote change? People died for the right to have that vote so go out on May 6th (or whenever) and use it. Let's have a sensible view from Tonbridge voters from each persausion; the case for each main party and maybe some of the fringe parties. There are links to most of them in the left hand column if you want to find out more. As for which way I'm voting, I'll leave you all guessing on that one for now....
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I've noticed how people are falling over themselves to post their views on this one! Yawn.
You've said it yourself TB, the closest fought election in nearly 20 years, and the distinct possibility of a hung parliament (hanging them all sounds like a good idea n'est pas?). This can only mean more of the same collectivist, statist agenda. Higher taxes to pay for an ever increasing benefits culture. More government-funded non-jobs, box-tickers and bean counters. Gold-plated, index-linked pensions for government workers, while the rest of us see our pension pots decreasing in value each year. Increased surveilance and harrassment of law-abiding citizens, whilst real criminals go unpunished by courts more concerned with the rights of the perpetrators of crime than its victims. Political correctness taking over from common sense. Dumbing down of education, the media and standards of behaviour in general. Introducing another raft of un-wanted and ill-conceived legislation on to the statute book (over 4,000 new laws passed by New Liebour since they came to power!)
I could go on. Sure people died for the right to vote, but that was when voting actually meant something. Today's career politicians are more interested in feathering their own nests, and either attaining power, or clinging onto it, than tackling the real problems facing the country. Furthermore they will do anything, including trying to buy or bribe voters to achieve these aims (free computers for people from so-called deprived areas, concessions to voiciferous minority groups). The list is endless, and the steps that politicians will go to to achieve their ultimate aim of controlling what we all eat, drink, weigh, think and behave knows no bounds.
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